Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Why We Need to Keep ‘Agent Orange’ GMO Crops Off Our Farms

Have you heard of superweeds? For
years, Monsanto has been selling genetically engineered (GE) or GMO corn
and soybeans that promote the use of an herbicide called Roundup.
Evolution is happening, and now weeds are becoming resistant to
Monsanto’s killer.Dow Chemical thinks they have the solution – new GE corn and soybeans
genetically engineered to survive an even more toxic herbicide called
2,4-D. But big profits for Dow Chemical is bad news for the rest of us!Agent Orange was sprayed aerially by U.S. planes in Vietnam to destroy
the country’s forests and agricultural lands. The veterans and civilians
exposed to Agent Orange experienced extreme health complications – a
range of cancers and birth defects have been linked to exposure to the
toxic chemical. The Vietnamese Red Cross estimates nearly 1 million
people have experienced health problems as a result of the use of Agent
Orange.[1]READ MORE:2,4-D was a major component of the chemical defoliant known as Agent Orange